The Gambler R
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2017
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky & Burt Young | |
Performer: | Jacqueline Brookes, Vic Tayback, Carmine Caridi, Steven Keats, Carl Crudup, Allan Rich & Stuart Margolin | |
Directed by | Karel Reisz | |
Edited by | Roger Spottiswoode | |
Screenwriting by | James Toback | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Produced by | Robert Chartoff & Irwin Winkler | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Reisz, Caan, and screenwriter James Toback have constructed the character and the movie so convincingly that the scene not only works, but works two ways: first as suspense, and then as character revelation.
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Chicago Sun-Times
We feel neither Axel's ghastly compulsion nor his intermittent exultation -- granted that he gets very little help from the script.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
Fairly good dramatics topped by strong James Caan.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Caan doesn't need much else (aside from his 'fro) to carry the picture.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 4/5 --
James Caan is unforgettable in this tense examination of a college professor who can't stop gambling. One of the many overlooked gems of the 1970s.
Fantastica Daily
Rating: 4/5 --
Haunting Karel Reisz film
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
THE GAMBLER, directed by Karel Reisz, stars James Caan in a difficult role as Alex Freed, a compulsive gambler with many inner demons, who is completely out of control. He can't resist a bad bet because that's where the "juice" is. While his irrational rationalizations--largely influenced by Dostoyevsky, whose novel, THE GAMBLER, he teaches to his students at City College--might seem like a lot of existential hot air, they are well dramatized, making his descent downward believable even as his actions become increasingly frenetic.
Reisz provides a sound realism to the THE GAMBLER's settings both in Las Vegas and on the streets of New York. Made at the same time as Robert Altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT, which attempted to visually create the internal world of the compulsive gambler, here Reisz presents a gritty realism to the world of bookies, loan sharks, and their violent enforcers. He relies on Caan, generally a more physical actor, to portray the cultured intellectual who loves Mahler, but is obsessed with danger. Caan starts slowly, and with the help of Lauren Hutton in a good performance as Billie, his predictable blond girlfriend, he illuminates the world of gambling in this tense, realistic film.
Reisz provides a sound realism to the THE GAMBLER's settings both in Las Vegas and on the streets of New York. Made at the same time as Robert Altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT, which attempted to visually create the internal world of the compulsive gambler, here Reisz presents a gritty realism to the world of bookies, loan sharks, and their violent enforcers. He relies on Caan, generally a more physical actor, to portray the cultured intellectual who loves Mahler, but is obsessed with danger. Caan starts slowly, and with the help of Lauren Hutton in a good performance as Billie, his predictable blond girlfriend, he illuminates the world of gambling in this tense, realistic film.
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